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Old 02-21-2019, 10:28 PM   #299
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This week’s WWE Network Hidden Gems additions were:
Sputnik Monroe vs. Jack Pesek (Championship Wrestling from Florida, 1966)
Bobo Brazil & Dick the Bruiser vs. The Sheik & Bobby Heenan (AWA, 1974)
Rocky Johnson & Pedro Morales vs. Ivan Koloff & Mr. Saito (Championship Wrestling from Florida, 1978)
Junkyard Dog vs. Buzz Sawyer (Houston Wrestling, 1983)
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Impact Wrestling Xplosion will be airing on Twitch every Wednesday at 7 PM ET. The first episode aired yesterday with very little advance warning. It was not archived, so it's just going to be on the live stream.
Yesterday's episode had around the peak range of 250 viewers on Twitch.

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The Miz and Maryse's reality show officially has its return date.

WWE announced today that new episodes of "Miz & Mrs." will return to the USA Network on Tuesday, April 2. The show will again be airing in the post-SmackDown time slot at 10 p.m. Eastern time.

The new episodes are being billed as a continuation of the first season. Six episodes have already aired, and 14 more will air during the second run. The episodes are 30 minutes long.
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Chris Jericho shares a fun Vince McMahon story.

Appearing on the Rich Eisen Show, Jericho spoke about a variety of subjects, including Jack Action (the name Jericho originally wanted to use in wrestling), his love of the NFL, and Fozzy. But on the subject of wrestling, it was a Vince McMahon story that caught Eisen's attention.

"In the mid-2000s, Vince McMahon decided that you couldn't be from Canada and be a babyface in the WWE, for whatever reason. 'No one would cheer a Canadian' was his mindset. I'm not kidding," recalled Jericho. "I was told that 'You can't be from Winnipeg anymore, you're from Tampa.' I only live in Tampa. I'm not from there. 'Where were you born?' Manhasset (New York). 'Ah, sounds too country. You're now from Manhattan, New York.' There was a whole bunch of us that were Canadian. Edge, Christian, Val Venis, a bunch of other guys. He just decided one time, you can't be a babyface and be from Canada. For people to really cheer you, you have to be from the United States. It probably lasted about six months."

According to an article in SLAM! Sports, the hometown change and Vince's opinion that Canadians could not be good guys, happened in 2004.
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NJPW-ROH G1 Supercard To Stream Live On HonorClub, NJPW World, And Fite TV
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Brandon Thurston did research and estimated the revenue per episode of the various WWE reality shows at $650,000 to $920,000. In different investors calls, the reality shows have been talked about as having low profit margins. He also estimated $110,000 per episode for Mixed Match Challenge, which is nice money given the production crew is already there, but it only makes sense to do as part of an existing taping, and also shows that for all the talk of Facebook and sports rights, they spent peanuts as compared with both television and other streaming subscription services for similar content.
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In some of the most irresponsible reporting, Fox News actually covered the Jimmy Uso arrest story and quoted a person saying that the two did this on purpose so they could get fired and go to AEW. Like you have a contract expiring in two months and your wife drives down the wrong way on a one-way street and you get arrested in an attempt to get fired by a company that doesn’t fire stars for such things and doesn’t release marketable stars who can work for opposition, particularly now.
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To show just how out of touch WCW management was at one time, Dave Penzer on his podcast with Buff Bagwell talked about Eric Bischoff’s idea where they would tell the audience and all the talent that Bagwell had died in a plane crash in 1998 and then they’d shock everyone when he did a surprise run-in some time later. Work the boys? Obviously talent would figure out in an instant that there was no plane crash. The industry is paranoid enough without giving talent a very good reason to think management are pathetic liars. Plus, it draws no money with fans either. Bagwell said he had already told his parents and his wife about the angle and to keep quiet. But then Bischoff decided against doing it. Bagwell said the idea was he would return as a ghost on wires.
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Paul London and D-Lo Brown were working as a producers for Impact at this week’s tapings, getting tryouts for the role..
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FOX this weekend started advertising 10/4 as the debut of the new Friday Night Smackdown show.
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One of the things that threw Vince off was how much he was shocked and hurt when he found out Undertaker was doing Starrcast. Vince always treated Undertaker special, like a modern Andre (who, ironically, Vince had a falling out with toward the end of his career). It was in many ways the first sign in more than a decade that he no longer fully controls wrestling. Even though Starrcast isn’t AEW, it is part of the AEW weekend and fans perceive it as part of AEW. Once that was announced, there was a push to get Undertaker on WrestleMania from the perception standpoint. Vince wanted him off Starrcast but there may not be a legal way he can pull that off.

His conclusion about the declining ratings when looking at quarter hours and minute-by-minutes is that it’s stale, the stars are stale, and decided that they needed to immediately make new stars. He wanted to make four stars from NXT who are great wrestlers. While it is not clear whether some of this was to establish workers the level of the AEW top guys and tag teams, since AEW will feature that, the timing of this coming off the ticket demand for the AEW show made many make that connection. Even if a lot of modern fans don’t understand the significance of the AEW ticket demand, something with all their advantages, WWE only has had once every year–WrestleMania, and the demand was ahead of most Manias in history (although not the 2019 demand),

Vince understands the significance of a pre-sale with orders that would have totaled 43,500 tickets logged in within 30 minutes, something WWE has only been able to garner an interest level among the ticket consumers a few times in its history, with no television and only one star (Chris Jericho) who was ever a true major player on WWE television and Cody, who had that television but is a far bigger star without it. Others can make excuses but for Vince, he knows better and knows the significance of the magnitude of all that. It’s something he has never even come close to doing anywhere ever where he didn’t have television.

So the decision was made late last week to bring in Johnny Gargano, Tommaso Ciampa, Ricochet and Aleister Black. He made the call without consulting Paul Levesque, who seemed to be building Gargano vs. Ciampa, or at least something involving the two, for his biggest NXT show of the year on 4/5 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Ciampa was along with Rush one of the two best heels in the business and one could argue the best, and Gargano was heelish but sort of tweener, and the tension was an ongoing storyline, and now they were being introduced as a babyface tag team.
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Everything is still changing. Very little of Mania this year is finalized, which is unprecedented for this late in the game. Cena doesn't even have an opponent yet. When Lars Sullivan fell through, they credited Drew McIntyre with taking Cena out of the Rumble match, but then never followed through on that. Situations with Undertaker and Batista as far as their status on the show is unclear, as is the case with Kurt Angle and the idea of a retirement match.
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Christopher DeJoseph, one of the main producers and the head writer of Lucha Underground, was on Twitter and asked about a fifth season, and surprisingly responded saying he doesn’t believe it will return but he hopes it will.
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